Browsing: Leadership

I will be the first one to admit that I LOVE CHANGE! What is really fun, is that what I do for a living is all about helping clients navigate through change. Change is hard and uncomfortable because we often don’t know what to expect…

I grabbed my most recent issue of Harvard Business Review and on the front cover was a note pointing to an article entitled “The Future of Leadership Development”. ALL our Fortune 500 clients have some form of a Leadership Development program in place and pay…

What is a Manager? According to BusinessDictionary.com. a manager is “an individual who is in charge of a certain group of tasks, or a certain subset of a company. A manager often has a staff of people who report to him or her.” This definition…

The word “conflict” has such negative connotations but the most effective teams actually elicit conflict to generate new ideas. Since most of our work as Sourcing / Category Management professionals is done in teams, embracing constructive conflict is a MUST as you are making the…

More on that later but let’s talk about termites today. Why you ask? TMG alumni can tell you right away – it’s because of Synectics (from the Decision Making workshop). Synectics is the art of connecting things that are normally unlikely to be connected. For…

As the debate rages on about the Difference Between Strategic Sourcing and Category Management, the one element that is insurmountable if you don’t have it, is Leadership! Without a leader that has the vision to move your organization toward Category Management – you are never…